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Irish actress Sharon Horgan recalls the hilarious story behind her first headshot as an actress starting out

CATASTROPHE actor Sharon Horgan has to be one of Ireland's funniest ladies.

The comic and writer behind the shows Divorce, Pulling and Catastrophe has had a career spanning decades with success in British television.

She gave the backstory to the headshot which no doubt was more than interesting:

"First headshot. London 1991. I’d obviously worked out that what the industry was looking for in a young Irish actress was multiple piercings and Vulcanesque eyebrows.

Worth noting that it took ten years from when this photo was taken to get my first paid job in TV. TEN YEARS. By the time I got these photos done I had been working in Kilburn Job centre for two years so things were really going according to plan in terms of the big dream.

The chap that took them used to come into the Jobcentre and one day asked if I’d let him take my photo. So OF COURSE I went back to his flat in Kilburn on my own and did that.

He never charged me any money. But he did ask me if we could do another session. I never took him up on it. Thank you man who took my photo. Maybe you were just a really nice guy and not a perv at all.

I look at old photos of me and I look at me now with my scars and rosacea and wrinkles and hair loss and I think the only positive is I can literally see in my eyes how stupid I was back then."

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First headshot. London 1991. I’d obviously worked out that what the industry was looking for in a young Irish actress was multiple piercings and Vulcanesque eyebrows. Worth noting that it took ten years from when this photo was taken to get my first paid job in TV. TEN YEARS. By the time I got these photos done I had been working in Kilburn Job centre for two years so things were really going according to plan in terms of the big dream. The chap that took them used to come into the Jobcentre and one day asked if I’d let him take my photo. So OF COURSE I went back to his flat in Kilburn on my own and did that. He never charged me any money. But he did ask me if we could do another session. I never took him up on it. Thank you man who took my photo. Maybe you were just a really nice guy and not a perv at all. I look at old photos of me and I look at me now with my scars and rosacea and wrinkles and hair loss and I think the only positive is I can literally see in my eyes how stupid I was back then. #firstheadshot

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